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"Philip Templeton is on the run in New Zealand after releasing a military robotics project to the public. He's left behind his career, his identity and his girlfriend, Mishra McKenzie. Mishra travels to New Zealand to search for Philip - but she isn't...
"Working as a bartender at the most popular club in town, dating a handsome, sexy and ever so slightly mysterious Englishman, Georgia thought her life was finally going somewhere. Then one night a rogue vampire caught her unawares, introducing her to...
Large Print
"How many parents does it take to make a baby? In the case of Rosalind Melrose Smithson it took four: one birth mother; one legal father; one interfering neighbor; and one turkey baster filled with the defrosted essence of an anonymous donor. Or not ...
"Bard. Warrior. Rebel. Eighteen-year-old Liobhan is a powerful singer and an expert whistle player. Her brother has a voice to melt the hardest heart and is a rare talent on the harp. But Liobhan's burning ambition is to join the elite warrior band on...
"My name is Laura. I come from a line of women who have the gift of matakite (clairvoyancy). My grandmother was brought up in the old ways of tikanga (Māori customs, lore, values and protocols). Her story begins as a young girl. Tane Mahuta, god of the...
Audio CD
I wasn't enjoying the afternoon of 23 February even before I learnt that my husband was having an affair. The news of her husband's infidelity comes as a nasty shock to Jenny Reynolds, part-time building control officer and full-time mother, even though,...
"Kitty Farrell, headstrong and passionate as ever, is heartbroken over the apparent death by drowning of her husband Rian. Alone and grieving on the goldfields of Ballarat, she turns to Rian's long-time shipmate Daniel, who has loved her from afar for...
"Three friends, thirty years of shared secrets, one impulsive gesture ... and a terrible accident. When friendship goes bad, someone has to pay. It's New Year's Eve. Three thirty-something women - Aimee, Melinda and Lou - best friends for decades, let...
"Funny, intriguing, lyrical, insightful and ultimately moving, this entertaining novel from one of this country's best writers both skewers and celebrates small town New Zealand. Pat 'Pearly' Gates has achieved a lot in his life and evinces considera...
"Dr Ashwin Ghadavi, Gabriel's Bay's newly imported GP, is trying hard to fit in. His challenges include the immoveable force of his office manager, Mac, the ambiguities of the Kiwi idiom, and his unrequited attraction to Mac's daughter, Emma. Having ...
When Kitty and Rian Farrell sail their schooner Katipo III into Dunedin Harbour in 1863, they are on tenterhooks. The new Otago goldfields have attracted all-comers, including their friend Wong Fu from Ballarat, who has sent a message for their help....
"Amid the ruins and chaos left by the Second World War, a family sets out from a small town in Russia to escape the uncertainty of living under the iron fist of Stalin. Their arduous journey takes them through Poland and then Germany, where they hear...
"Abandoned by his part-Cherokee Ma, Charlie Kincaid escapes servitude with his uncle. He jumps a boxcar, accompanied by his schoolmate Roxy, who is escaping troubles of her own. Charlie becomes a US Navy Diver. Mattie Blanc is from a genteel New Zeal...
Going back is never easy. But sometimes you have to go back to move forward. It has been nine years since the contest, but for some of the contestants it feels like yesterday. When they all receive an invitation to return to the island of Samimoto, some...
Bill Whakahoro and his cobber, Tumblechops, are men of no ambition. But when they are pushed into taking on a little responsibility, they discover that the simple life they once enjoyed has gone, perhaps forever. This is a story of trout fishing, bee...
"This book tells the stories of the older people around us - stories which are at once familiar and extraordinary.A range of delightful and challenging fictionalised characters are beautifully presented with warm-hearted and absorbing honesty.'This Old...
"Jessie Lee, a young New Zealand vet leaves the city to join her friend, Hope Rigby in the alpine rural village of Glenorchy. When she takes up her new post as a remote on-call vet, she encounters animosity and prejudice from male farmers who have lived...
"Behind the masterpiece was a love that defined Renaissance art. Michaelangelo di Lodovico Buonarrotti hs risen into Rome's artistic elite and the ailing Pope Clement commissions him to paint The Last Judgement. When the artist Tomasso, a young noble...
"Leilei Leilei Junior (aka Machete) and Neil Turnbull (aka The Ghost) come from vey different backgrounds but when they eventually found each other they became the midfield combination that ruled world rugby for four consecutive World Cups. Off the f...
"Living out of time has not been easy for Mimi Wylde. Travelling to the 23rd century via time waves can do that to a girl. At least she's officially a Novitiate at the Royal Academy of Time Surgeons now. But when a routine trip goes disastrously wrong,...
"The story of a young woman who finds herself subject to the gravitational field of a charismatic man, The Boyfriend is a cautionary tale about blindly accepting traditional 'love' narratives" This clear-eyed, dismaying and often hilarious examination...
"John Lee is a migrant from Beijing who has lived in Auckland for three decades. Formerly a librarian, he leads an increasingly lonely and misanthropic life, reduced to selling second-hand goods, and living in a marriage of convenience with his disabled...
The Stories of Eileen Duggan presents the two collections of short stories Eileen Duggan wrote but did not offer for publication, and includes a Preface by the editor, Helen J. O'Neill, and a substantial introduction by John Weir. Eileen Duggan was born...
"Duncan Blake is a Kiwi filmmaker whose move to LA has not gone to plan. After a series of setbacks, he's working at a chain restaurant, his marriage is on shaky ground after a porn-related faux pas and his son won't stop watching Aladdin. When Duncan...
"Back once more in his own time, Kev finds it hard to settle back into his old life. Thoughts and memories of Persephone Mockett and the crew of the airship, the Elizabeth Anne, crowd his mind, and he longs to be a part of the adventurous lifestyle he...
"Everyone thinks Katriona McLeod is living the dream. Her professional career as a make-up artist sees her traveling the world working with the stars and she's got no shortage of men wanting her affection. Only problem is she's never gotten over Caleb...
"Destructive tsunamis and volcanic eruptions play havoc with the world's environment. In three locations young women lead survivors out of the carnage. Heather in a Yorkshire dale discovers a windfall, allowing her to use the money to provide for others....
Horace Reid's death opened the door to our freedom. His widow, Elizabeth, exists only on paper. She disappeared thirty years ago. It's us, the Tribe, who live in her body now. But nobody knows that. Us are Elise, the reluctant host, Lilly the closer,...
"Three men who grew up in the same little country town find themselves at the heart of a national crisis. One a gang member. One a cop. One an MP. In New Zealand, one degree of separation is an overstatement. When good things happen, everyone takes ...
"When the camera rolls who can tell what is a movie script and what is real life? It is 1929 and few people are who they say they are when Hollywood on Tour comes to town to make a movie with a scattering of Stars plus throngs of star-struck locals. So...
"One man's courage could save man's best friend... Pete is trying his best to get on the right side of the tracks. Dog-napping spoiled pets for ransom money seems harmless, and he could really use the cash. All he has to do is locate targets with his...
eBook
Inspector Alleyn just wants to write a letter to his wife, but World War II keeps intruding with war-work that has brought Alleyn to a hospital in New Zealand's hinterlands, and it's the war that has left the hospital swimming in convalescing soldiers....
"When seven-year-old Alyssa is kidnapped, Deputy Noah Harper decides he will do what it takes to find her - but that means crossing lines he can never come back from. Finding the girl safe isn't enough to stop Noah from losing his job, his wife, and from...
Lachie McGuire is trying to make a fresh start. He's sobered up and is making amends for all the people he has hurt and the pain he has caused. But some of his past actions have consequences. Even if he doesn't remember them. Needing her independence...
"Gods and mortals collide in the thrilling second instalment in the historical Greek fantasy the Olympus Series. When Prince Odysseus is sent on a quest to recover his family honour, he's led to Delos where a mysterious new prophecy has captivated the...
Chief Jim Hopper reveals long-awaited secrets to Eleven about his old life as a police detective in New York City, confronting his past before the events of the hit show Stranger Things. Christmas, Hawkins, 1984. All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy...
"Nanotech entrepreneur Ryan Trishler and retired Soviet general Alexander Volkov come from very different worlds, yet both have survived the toughest of upbringings. And now each man understands something of the nature of military conflict: one using...
"The dual-timeline sequel continuing the family sagas of Brigid, The Girl from County Clare; and Gwenna, The Welsh Confectioner. Set in Auckland, New Zealand. 1903 Jane is the talented principal costumier at Auckland's Opera House in its Edwardian heyday....
"When Evan Cadwallader's father dies, leaving behind a legacy of debt and failed businesses, Evan is doubtful that the derelict cottage in the foothills of the mountains will provide the financial answer but decides to visit anyway. He falls in love with...
"Ru Patterson, the country's leading broadcaster, is organizing protests against President Johnson's envoy Henry Cabot Lodge, in Wellington to pressure New Zealand to send troops to Vietnam. Dan Delaney is first on the scene of a young naked woman dead...
"The Castaway Hat is an amusing intrigue of lure and lucre, spanning two generations. A mystery of a straw hat with a faded red ribbon washed among the rocks. The finder, Edgar, by co-incidence, not that he knows it, met the owner the previous night at...
Embittered by Tito's communist dictatorship that enslaved his country after World War II, Gaspar is compelled to risk his life by escaping across the Adriatic to the "West". In his search for a better future in a stable country his attempts to escape...
Severed hands, moving paintings and an erotic encounter in a priest hole, just another typical day for Maeve Crawford at Briarwood Castle. With Maeve's sister Kelly on her way from America and the fae threat looming ever closer, things at Briarwood are...
A bitter-sweet novel of forbidden love and family secrets. 'No one must ever know.' It's the annual New Year family get-together. Molly is dreading having to spend time with her mother, but she is looking forward to her son spending time with his...
"Meltwater is a homage to the power of storytelling. Of a woman's unique journey to find her `self'. A journey made difficult by the fact that Elizabeth has thirteen different `selves,' all part of her, all created to bury shocking memories of abuse....
"Pilot Claire Hardcastle returns in her third adventure! When Claire stumbles over human remains in a swamp, she and her partner are happy to leave the investigation in the hands of the police and continue their holiday. Then Claire meets two men searching...
"A gripping science fiction story about a young astrophysicist who stumbles upon an alien invasion of Earth by robots from another solar system. Their far-reaching plan includes some very disturbing facts about the human race and its future. The CIA,...
"While attending an auction, ghost-seer Emily Curtis can't resist purchasing an old puzzle box. She gets more than she bargained for when she finds the ghost of a witch attached. Miss Hawthorne died in an accident a year ago, so there's no murderer to...
"A heart-warming story that will inspire you UNSHAKABLE COURAGE--does Ruby have it? Ruby Preston is about to face the perils of an overland journey to Thailand from Australia. She has agreed to help out in her parent's charity, a child trafficking re...
"Tippy Chan is eleven and lives in a small town in a very quiet part of the world - the place her Uncle Pike escaped from the first chance he got as a teenager. Now Pike is back with his new boyfriend Devon to look after Tippy while her mum's on a cr...
After he is kidnapped from a steam ship, Sergeant Hardy awakes in an underground cell with no idea where he is and who has captured him. While planning his escape he searches his memory for any event from his past that his brought him here.
"Sixteen stories of Aussie, apps, poets, parole, trysts, travel, rehab, refugees, jail, journos, strippers, celebs, drugs and more drugs."--Publisher's description.
"Alice Whitlock, one of New Zealand's first woman lawyers sets up a criminal defence practice in Feilding in 1898. Seth Hanlon arrives from Australia to try and mend a family relationship. They are brought together in circumstances no-one could have ...
"Merryweather Sinclair has struggled to keep her New Zealand farm since the death of her father in 1894. When a stranger arrives from West Virginia and insists she repay a debt owed by Lord Sinclair, she plots revenge to retain her property. Rourke Keston...
"Jane Southerington has established a new life in New Zealand in the 1880's hiding the brutal events of her past. When she employs Gareth Wyndham as her new farm foreman she is confronted by an aristocratic man she recognises from years back in Engla...
"They should have listened to the world's foremost theoretical physicist where SETI was concerned. That's what Tony believed. Find the aliens but don't tell them where we are! But the other experts thought they knew best. Then the Harvesters arrived -...
Boomtown Los Angeles, 1929: Into a world of movies lots and speakeasies comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, still nursing his broken heart, and determined only to go on living in the air. But there are forces that will keep him on the ground. ...
Boomtown Los Angeles, 1929: Into a world of movie lots and speakeasies comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, still nursing his broken heart, and determined only to go on living in the air. But there are forces that will keep him on the ground. Forces...
"The story of Turi, The Bird Talker, takes us to a time before European occupation of Aotearoa, where order and tradition dictates a life of learning for the young tohunga-tā-manu, Turi, a peaceful time punctuated by the violence and tragedy of inte...
"Hine Trewlove is your run-of-the-mill vegan yoga instructor. Except she can talk to dogs. Well, okay. Everybody can do that! But when the canines speak back, Hine understands and can counsel them through their problems. That's why her latest Dog Yoga...
"Syd Shaeffer used to be a lot ot things: she used to be ambitious and fearless, a stellar New York District Attorney, and fiancee to dashing love of her life, Frank Spinelli. A viral eye infection changed all that. Now she's blind and runs a failing...
"Maria has found a sanctuary in a rented house, overlooking a small Spanish village by thesea. She is coming to terms with losing the love of her life. But her solitude and the placesthat have become special to her are about to be encroached upon by ...
"Kidnapped as a young girl, her psychic powers harnessed by a madman, Memory lives a caged and isolated existence until she comes face-to-face with a wolf. Labelled an empath by her bad-tempered rescuer, Memory knows that her 'gift' is nothing but is...
"Sarah Flynn didn't deserve to die. A dead girl in his apartment puts private eye Mike Manning on the run, hunted by a homicide team determined to bring him to justice.But the obvious suspect is not always the right man. The Chase Investigations team...
"This novel is an urgent, crushing observation of adaptation and exclusion amidst preparation to settle Antarctica as climate destruction starts to bite. New Zealand in 2048, gateway to the melting continent, is thrust into the centre of the climate ...
"In 1971, after several years of political protesting, investigating Western, Eastern and occult philosophies, frolicking with marijuana and experimenting with LSD, Simon Bishop was exasperated with the oligarchic US government and the unjustifiable war...
Prince Odysseus of Ithaca is about to have his world torn apart. He's travelled to the oracle at Pytho to be anointed as heir to his island kingdom; but instead the Pythia reveals a terrible secret, one that tears down every pillar of his life, and marks...
"Mick Thompson’s secretive life throughout WWII continued after returning home to New Zealand in 1945. This seductive and intriguing true story explores love against the back drop of this courageous ANZAC soldier’s fight in the Western Desert war in ...
Death is stalking the southern South Island of New Zealand... Marginalised by previous antics, Sam Shephard, is on the bottom rung of detective training in Dunedin, and her boss makes sure she knows it. She gets involved in her first homicide investi...
Freya, Ingrid and Joanna Beauchamp love their sleepy life in North Hampton. A new engagement, an interesting job, a happy home - life is perfect. Yet these women are harbouring a centuries-old secret: they are powerful witches forbidden to practise magic....
Seven weeks have passed since Jack and Dee's quiet world shattered. Along with a small band of survivors, they fled to Mayor Island. Determined to help stem the Variant scourge, they volunteer for what remains of the army. Led by Captain Ben Johns, a...
"Kester (Kit) Simmons, drummer with the rock band 'Charlotte Jane', was out of beat. He was stressed out, starving and he thought he was going crazy. Then, with less than two weeks to go before a national tour, Kit's precious drums and one of the band...
"Adventure is Summer William's mission! Life in a small town is comfortable, but living with her loving and overprotective family means it lacks adventure. And forget romance with two interfering army brothers around. It's time to leave the cozy nest....
"Joanna "Mac" McGregor loves her father, and she'll do anything to keep him safe after Alzheimer's starts to steal his mind. That takes money, and Mac uses her only skills - those of soldiering - when she takes up a security contract in Iraq. She doesn't...
The Butcher Shop first appeared in 1926. Despite big overseas sales it was banned in New Zealand and later Australia for being disgusting, indecent and communistic - in other words for promoting revolutionary ideas about women and for a bold portrayal...
"A dynamic group has emerged in Auckland whose members refer to themselves as the Tribe. Mainly Polynesian, they grow up together, rise from poverty and become successful professionals, bound by love and fierce loyalty. At the centre, is Aaron, who lives...
"The farm owners, Targe and Kate, have their struggles with bad weather, poor finances, and Wendy to contend with. Now with the family farm facing an uncertain future, Targes sisters receive the opportunity to help. The three sistersAnna, Blue, and.....
"Things are starting to unravel for CIB Detective Lara Keen. The HEAT arsonist is still at large. Carole Michaels is still missing. And a shadowed figure dressed in a familiar fedora hat and trench coat keeps haunting Auckland’s streets. But the enemy...
"After a stint as a music venue proprietor, Geoff Maddox is getting on with his life: managing his complex domestic situation; visiting the local shopping mall; and socialising with the regulars at the Stella Maris Hotel. This routine is disrupted by...
"Her most terrifying fear is now a shocking reality. Rena Sutherland wakes from a coma into a horrifying nightmare. Following a car accident, Rena's vulnerable young daughter Chloe has disappeared but no one cares, no one's noticed. NO ONE HAS BEEN ...
"Three months before she died Daina Harrow faced a bully at school. Six weeks before she died Daina Harrow suffered an assault in the park. One week before she died Daina Harrow stole a secret people had killed to hide. That was ten years ago. Ten long...
"The pampered daughter of a wealthy man, Alice, appears to have everything-beauty, wealth, and background. She is pursued by several men, but marriage is not enough to satisfy Alice's longing for a sense of purpose in her life. She looks for this in ...
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